Digital Camera Reviews

Fujio Mitarai, arch controlling of the Japanese camera and appointment accessories giant, took the wraps of the cine camera, alleged Cinema EOS, in a arranged amphitheater on the Paramount Pictures cine flat lot.

At $20,000 for the anatomy alone, the Cinema EOS is not bargain by customer standards but is on the low end of what able agenda blur cameras cost, which can adeptness into the six figures. Two zoom lenses advised for cine authoritative will go for $45,000 and $47,000.

Making such cher cameras for able users is somewhat of a abandonment for Canon, which makes up added than a third of its acquirement from customer electronics, and added than bisected from appointment accessories like all-in-one printer-copier-fax machines.

In an account with The Associated Press, Mitarai said Canon’s move into big-ticket high-end articles for professionals comes in acknowledgment to the ascent yen and the movement of accomplishment to cheaper-labor countries abroad.

“Anything after aerial added amount is now actuality bogus in southeast Asian countries and China. So we charge to about-face into an era area all our articles accept an added value,” Mitarai said. “That is one above trend in affair the difficulties airish by the able yen.”

The camera draws on the acceptance of the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a single-lens reflex still camera that the aggregation alien in 2008 and which became broadly accepted by absolute filmmakers because of its adeptness to booty abounding high-definition video at the 1920-by-1080 pixel resolution accepted as 1080p.

It didn’t booty continued for its acceptance to adeptness Hollywood.

The Mark II was acclimated in the final adventure of the aftermost division of Fox’s television appearance “House M.D.,” as able-bodied as in the car antagonism scenes of “Iron Man 2″ and assertive scenes in “Captain America: The First Avenger,” movies that Paramount distributed.

The Cinema EOS is agnate in appearance to a acceptable still camera but works with a array of mounts.